Avatars, get ready for a birthday bash like no other! Today, we are announcing a special mini-telethon around Lord British’s birthday! Event begins on July 6th and runs from 3-9pm CT. Lord British’s birthday is on July 4th, a couple of days before the telethon.
Telethons are livestreamed on Twitch and include a complete schedule of developer Deep Dives, answers to your gameplay questions, community activities, prize giveaways, sales on items, and more!
Celebrate with the community as the telethon approaches in one of the many soon-to-be-announced party contest celebrations!
Expiring Items
In honor of Lord British’s birthday, at 9pm CT, July 6, 2017, we are expiring the following content from the Add On Store (and the in-game Crown Merchants). This means that these items will no longer be available in our store after this date.
Before the following items expire for good, we have put them on sale at approx. 20% off! Check out what’s currently on sale:
- Teletype: Plays D&D 1, Lord British’s first game!
- Telescope: Lord British loves astronomy
- Kobold Radiant Energy Coil
- Kobold Radiant Energy Capacitor
- Fireworks 45-Piece Assortment – Set 1
- Fireworks 45-Piece Assortment – Set 3
Help us to achieve the following goals during this next event!
As a special bonus, we are offering Telethon Funding Stretch Goal Rewards to any backer that pledges a minimum of $5 from the start of the telethon, until 9pm CT (Spending Store Credit to make $5 minimum purchase does not apply).
Also, there will be Golden versions of each of these that will get added to SeedInvest $500 perk level after the telethon has concluded!
Stretch Goal Rewards are:
- $10K: Silver Fireworks
- $25K: /flowerwandtrick: make a magic wand turn into flower bouquet
- $35K: LB Helmet with Silver Serpent: includes light source
- $50K: LB Throne (chair with LB symbol on it)
- $65K: Tuxedo with tails + 2 Magic Emotes:
- /birdtrick: make a bird fly out of a top hat!
- /endlessclothtrick: pull a long string of colored cloths from your mouth!
- $80K: LB Version of Moondial
The above screenshot is not the LB Version and is only an example of the Moondial. LB Version currently in production.Cheer on the Devs!
Additionally, we will be spinning the Wheel of Fortune! The wheel will have 14 items at any given time, but dozens of sales will happen! Each time an item comes up it will go on sale at approx. 20% off for 1 hour.
As the wheel is spun, what is selected will be replaced by something else. Items already selected will be removed for a time (some may not come back onto the wheel for the rest of the telethon). Keep in mind that some of these may never come up, so cross your fingers for your preferred item!
Wheel of Fortune Flash Sales:
- All Lot Deeds
- Basements
- City Homes
- Clothing and Wings
- Dyes
- Elven Bundles
- Emotes
- Fireplaces and Lamps
- Furniture
- Games & Gustball Court
- Greenhouses (incl Ornate Glass Roof Rowhouse)
- Hats & Masks
- Kobold Bundles
- Make A Difference (incl Blood Reliquaries)
- Music
- Obsidian Bundles
- Pattern Packs
- Pavers, Fences, and Walls
- Pets
- Pipes, Fans, Umbrella & Cane
- Row Homes
- Shogun Bundles
- Signs
- Town Homes
- Trees & Statues
- Viking Bundles
- Village Homes
- Water Homes & Decorations
Telethon Schedule
- 3:00 PM: Introduction of the Telethon
- 3:20 PM: Party Contest winners announced!
- 3:30 PM: R43 Postmortem Q&A
- 5:30 PM: World Building Tour
- 7:00 PM: Community Roundtable
- 7:30 PM: Event More Q&A!
- 8:45 PM: Wrap-up
Schedule is subject to change. Check back here before the telethon begins!
Win These Great Prizes!
- Fireworks 45-Piece Assortment – Set 1 (expiring)
- Fireworks 45-Piece Assortment – Set 3 (expiring)
- Teletype (expiring)
- Telescope (expiring)
- Kobold Radiant Energy Coil (expiring)
- Kobold Radiant Energy Capacitor (expiring)
- Lord British Fur Collared Cloak
- Lord British Shield
- Lord British vs Darkstarr Battle Banner
- Remote Bank Access Device
- Bank Upgrades
- COTOs and Store Credit
- Several items that are expiring tonight
- Plus more prizes from the Add On Store
- And several items courtesy of RelicsbyRild.com
We will be giving prizes away on an hourly basis with many being given away multiple times. If you wish to win prizes during the Telethon event, be in Discord chat! We will be active on Twitch and YouTube chats as well, but they will not be our portal for prize giveaways.
There will be some really awesome prizes awarded during the telethon, but you have to be present in the Discord chatroom to qualify for each drawing.
Submit your questions!
We will be answering questions throughout the telethon so submit them in the comments section below or through Discord during the Telethon. Please keep in mind that questions and feedback related to each segment will be given priority and really verbose questions may be skipped, as they can be a challenge to shorten and summarize live on the air. Please keep it to 3 total questions in the comments section below!
Keep an eye on @ShroudofAvatar for updates before, during, and after the telethon. See you on Twitch at 3pm CT this coming July 6th!
Warning: Telethon is Rated PG-13 for Alcoholic Content
(might get upgraded to Rated-R depending on rate of pledges)
(might get upgraded to Rated-R depending on rate of pledges)
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